Association between hepatitis B virus core promoter rearrangements and hepatocellular carcinoma

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 812-814

  Laskus, Tomasz ^a   Radkowski, Marek ^a   Nowicki, Marek ^b   Wang, Lian Fu ^a   Vargas, Hugo ^a   Rakela, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; GUANINE; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS MUTATION;

EID: 0032571140     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.8249     Document Type: Article

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